Secretary
Rice Urged To Call On Mexico to End Pro-Illegal Immigration PoliciesWashington
- A group of House Republicans is urging Sec. of State Condoleezza
Rice to protest the government of Mexico's encouragement of illegal
immigration when she meets with Mexican officials this week.
"We want the government of Mexico
to understand that its aggressive encouragement of illegal immigration
is a daunting if not insurmountable barrier to continued good
relations," said J.D. Hayworth (R-Az) who authored the letter.

KTRK-TV
-- Houston25
invaders captured in HoustonAn anonymous tip led federal agents to
a home in east Houston, where they say they saw the delivery
of 25 undocumented immigrants
[criminals]. -- Twenty-four are Mexican nationals. One is
from Honduras. Immigration and customs enforcement officials
took all 25 into custody, along with five people they believe
were involved in a smuggling operation.

Associated
PressImmigrant
apparently killed judge's kinChicago (AP) - A man who filed bizarre,
rambling lawsuits over his cancer treatment shot himself to death
during a traffic stop outside Milwaukee and left a suicide note
claiming he killed the husband and mother of a federal judge
who ruled against him, police said Thursday.

Dan Stein
-- The Stein ReportDems
Preparing Assault on Bush Border Security LapsesI attended a Capitol Hill hearing today
on "Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources." No
one could have missed the fact that Democrats are preparing to
pounce on the Bush administration's failure to fully fund authorized
detention space and ICE enforcement agents...

NBC15 --
MadisonMove
underway in Wisconsin to reward invadersThere's a move to make education more
affordable for illegal immigrants
[criminals]. -- Representative Pedro Colon is announcing
a provision in the state's budget to give undocumented immigrant
students in-state tuition. Supporters say that most immigrant
students were brought to this country as young children and did
not have control over that aspect of their lives. [So what?]

Washington
TimesDeLay
wants bill on illegals linked to Iraq spendingHouse Majority Leader Tom DeLay said
yesterday that the House will insist that the final emergency
Iraq spending bill also include the bill the House passed last
month to crack down on abuses of the asylum system and illegal
immigrants' ability to use driver's licenses. -- "This is
a bill that pays for security for this country, and keeping Americans
safe..."

Monterey
HeraldInvader
gets slap on wrist in death of firefighterThe driver of a vehicle that struck and
killed a Soledad firefighter almost one year ago was sentenced
to two years in prison Wednesday for leaving the accident scene.
-- Oreina Alvarez Zarco will likely spend less than a year in
prison, since she has already served almost a full year in jail
and generated almost 180 days of credits for good behavior.

Atlanta
Journal-ConstitutionMexican
meth tidal wave threatens to overwhelm...The major trafficking organizations,
which are predominantly operated by Mexican nationals, "realize
they can make huge profits [in the Southeast]," a DEA spokesperson
said. The added enforcement in the West "has squeezed the
balloon and moved it East." -- "There's a lot larger
cases, more cases with Hispanics..."

Lydia Chavez
(UC Berkeley Crackpot) -- Bangkok PostLatin
American states need to protect their own...Gil
Cedillo, a California state senator who has been trying to
reverse earlier legislation that in 1994 made it illegal for
undocumented workers [criminals]
in California to drive, wrote in a recent policy paper: "While
the number of immigrant drivers may be minimally reduced, most
simply drive without being trained, tested, licensed, and insured.''

Waah!
Waah!

Epoch TimesInvasion
cheerleaders whine to OAS..."As human beings we all have
inalienable rights," says Ruben Chandrasekar, Regional Organizer
for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), and both legal
and illegal immigrants [criminals]
should be allowed those rights. Chandrasekar is one of a number
of representatives of legal or social organizations that testified
on Thursday...

GovExec.comBorder,
interior enforcement called severely lackingCurrent and former government officials
told Congress Wednesday that the nation's border and immigration
security suffers from the lack of a comprehensive mission, poor
information sharing and coordination between agencies, inadequate
resources, inept management and bureaucratic infighting. [See:
What Homeland
Security?]

Associated
PressRice
talks of 'close work' with corruption-bloated MexicoFacing a diplomatic test, Condoleezza
Rice said Thursday she hoped to begin a dialogue on border issues
and immigration with the United States' "close
neighbor and friend" during her first trip to Mexico
as secretary of state. -- She was to announce a
$10 million grant to support the expansion of Mexico's micro-financing
program...

Green Bay
Press-Gazette31
spoken in metropolitan Green Bay, census finds...The report "Many Languages, One
America," developed from the latest census data, examines
languages spoken in counties across the nation, as well as in
203 metropolitan areas, including Green Bay. -- The report was
created by the U.S. English Foundation, a group that includes
in its mission the promotion of English as the country's common
language.

El Universal
-- Mexico CityDerbez:
Arizona jail plan invalidMexico gave a chilly response on Wednesday
to an Arizona plan for a private prison south of the border,
saying proponents hadn't bothered to discuss it with Mexican
authorities. -- "To start with, they cannot decide to open
a jail in Sonora. It's a matter of national sovereignty,"
said Foreign Secretary Luis
Ernesto Derbez.

Jorge Bush

Wheeling
News-RegisterCongress
Should Insist On New Border AgentsMost members of Congress believe that
border security is important enough to pay 2,000 new Border Patrol
agents. President
Bush would be content with 210. He's wrong. -- One feature
of the intelligence reform law enacted last year was a stipulation
that 2,000 new Border Patrol agents should be hired.

American
PatrolEarned
LegalizationPresident Bush and several Republican
senators do their best to cover up their attempts to pass yet
another amnesty for illegal aliens. The "not-an-amnesty"
amnesty included in President Bush's "temporary" guest
worker program proposal is, perhaps, the most obvious of them
all. Others use more sophisticated terms, like "earned legalization..."

San Diego
Union-TribuneCHP
rams fleeing invader load vehicleEl Cajon, Calif. -- A California Highway
Patrol officer rammed a sport utility vehicle loaded with suspected
illegal immigrants before it could start down Interstate 8 the
wrong way last night, authorities said. -- The officer, with
a partner, had seen a Chevrolet Suburban speeding in westbound
lanes and tried to pull it over... [Note other border antics
on same page]

Las Vegas
SunDMV
break-in prompts security concern, fear of ID theftLas Vegas (AP) - Federal homeland security
officials have been notified about the theft of blank Nevada
state driver's licenses, the state's top security administrator
said. -- But local authorities said Wednesday that identity theft
rather than terrorism was their main concern.

Evansville
Courier-Press EditorialBush's
broken promise on hiring BP agents decriedA decision by the Bush administration
to cut back dramatically on the number of new border patrol agents
promised in next year's budget is frustrating to Americans concerned
about illegal immigration, and is disappointing to undermanned
agents assigned to protect our border with Mexico.